Mid-ocean ballast water exchange is working well to keep non-native aquatic organisms from invading the Great Lakes, but scientists are racing to find more secure solutions.
John Moyle: Minnesota’s Aldo Leopold
Learning about a man whose holistic thinking and scientific rigor continue to protect Minnesota’s natural resources decades after his death.
Will woodland caribou survive in the Lake Superior basin?
Human policy decisions may pose a more imminent threat to caribou than climate change.
Uncovering the secret lives of wolves
A study in Voyageurs National Park is revealing details about wolf predation on beavers, leading to new insights about the ways wolves hunt—breakthrough information helping scientists create a fuller picture of how wolves impact the larger ecosystem.
“Indian Country is clearing its throat”
Tribes are working on many fronts to push Minnesota to do a better job of protecting the environment.
Gems in the Rift
Agate is not a magazine about agates. Except when it is.
Dunes of the Leelanau
Exploring Michigan’s dynamic coastal environment
If Bees Are Few
A conversation with the poet and the entomologist whose teamwork produced an anthology of poems about bees.
In the Abstract
What is insight if not minutia well considered?
Above Superior
Photographer Cynthia Dickinson spends a day in the skies above the Superior National Forest with USGS researcher Dr. Shannon Barber-Meyer and USFS pilot Pat Loe.